When I first started EcoPlum, Safe Cosmetics was the last thing I thought I would be selling on my site. Why? Well, when I thought of eco-friendly products, things like composters, low flow shower heads, and stainless steel water bottles came to mind.

If you run a lot of miles, it’s unfortunately reasonably likely that at some point you’ll pick up an injury. Also, if you’re a running addict, you’re quite likely to ignore little niggles and manage to keep running (quite possibly making things worse), but at some point, those niggles may become an aggravated injury that really requires you to take some time off.

A few days ago, Stuart Elliott who writes the “Media Decoder” blog at the New York Times announced a new ad campaign for Fleisher’s Grass-Fed and Organic Meats. The headline read “Ads Promote Butcher Shop’s ‘Sultry Poultry’.” Elliott explains that “The campaign uses a burlesque theme, replete with puns and double entendre”

I and a growing number of my scientific colleagues share the view expressed recently by the noted British biologist Richard Dawkins that “we have no general reason to think that non-human animals feel pain less acutely than we do.”

An abolitionist is a person who has the sincere intent to abolish something, who has no intention to perpetuate whatever it is they intend to abolish, and who acts, in good faith, consistently according to their beliefs. A person must satisfy all three of these conditions in order to be an abolitionist.

Collectively speaking we are slowly facing the truth about animal industries – a topic that is darkly shadowed and generally hidden from our view. To quote Maude Barlow, an important environmental activist, “The rights of animals is the next frontier in the search for both justice and environmental sanity.”

World Go Vegan Week (October 24th – 31st) is a celebration of compassion and a time to take action for animals, the environment, world hunger, and everyone’s well-being. This year is going to be extra special… and extra cheesy!

Anger is part of the reality that everyone who has awakened to what is going on with animals has to deal with. Yet, people are always telling us vegans that we have to be positive, that we need to be compassionate, that we have to message carefully so that we don’t offend anyone so much that they refuse to listen to what we have to say.

For me, one of the most challenging aspects of a plant-based lifestyle is not the difficulty of finding food in an airport. Nor is it what to do on holidays. For me, the biggest challenge is feeding my companion animals. My household currently includes three cats and two dogs. They eat meat every day.

A lot of us in the animal welfare community feel helpless that so many animals in our nation’s shelters are killed because permanent, loving homes can’t be found for them. And many of us are worried about the major diseases that debilitate or kill human beings every year, such as cancer, heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes.

While a handful of universities provide students with vegan-friendly meal plans, not every cafeteria offer vegans more than iceburg lettuce and a few chickpeas here and there. Why should you pay thousands of dollars for room and board only to hear the words “can’t you just have a salad”? That’s unfair and not very tasty.

One aspect of The Sexual Politics of Meat as a phenomenon is the sexual play on words that we find in dead animal restaurant culture. Phrases like “are you a breast man or a thigh man” from Kentucky Fried Chicken, references to “racks” that imply it is a woman’s “rack” not a rack of ribs. For instance, this week a newspaper headline circulated

If a person is chowing down on someone else’s body parts, there’s a good chance that you’ve got a zombie on your hands. After all, mindlessly consuming the flesh of a tortured, terrified victim who didn’t want to die is a pretty standard zombie move. Thankfully, peta2 is out there on the flesh-eating frontlines fighting the zombie outbreak.